The Building Canada Act is only a starting point. Without a methodology, project designation risks becoming ad hoc, contested, or overly political, undermining public confidence and private investment.
Alto high-speed rail represents a sweet spot across much-needed transport modernization, and an opportunity for broader economic and social transformation.
Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances can afford.
Canada may not quite have the U.K.’s economic and/or political power, but it has a healthier appreciation of its relative strength on the world stage.
The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.
None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What’s new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening awareness of Canadians that our vaunted publicly-funded health ‘system’ is not what it used to be.
The House Health Committee’s report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent others from developing.
